SuiteCX

JULY 7, 2017

Customer experience consultancy, Ellipsis, launches first productised data offering off the back of Data Republic’s data exchange marketplace. Customer engagement consulting agency, Ellipsis, has joined forces with Data Republic on a new data product offering aimed at helping brands better measure customer loyalty investments.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As everyone knows in the loyalty industry, entering into new commercial agreements with partners can be a very time-consuming effort. For this reason, only very large partners end up collaborating even though the loyalty program members engage with thousands of medium or smaller potential partners on a daily basis.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

So, with competition across nearly every category, all companies now need a loyalty strategy. Not every company needs a loyalty program with points, gift cards, or other incentives, but very few businesses can survive without a base of loyal customers that makes up 30-50% of recurring total sales.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Loyalty trends, as we’ve said in our previous years’ trends articles, are interesting to think about – but they are not necessarily reflective of what your own brand should be focusing on in the next year. This year, a continuing key theme in loyalty will be the ability to drive even greater customer value at lower direct cost.

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Optimove

JULY 12, 2021

Customers have an alternative to almost every brand, and competition is fierce for every industry and vertical out there. That’s why customer engagement must become an essential KPI for every business that cares about loyalty and lifetime value. What Are Some Customer Engagement Strategies?

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SuiteCX

JUNE 15, 2017

Investments in customer loyalty are booming. Loyalty has become table stakes in most consumer facing sectors. Having a loyalty program is becoming a cost of doing business, a hygiene factor. Australian companies are spending more than $5 Billion dollars6 a year in loyalty points and rewards.

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SuiteCX

JUNE 15, 2017

Investments in customer loyalty are booming. Loyalty has become table stakes in most consumer facing sectors. Having a loyalty program is becoming a cost of doing business, a hygiene factor. Australian companies are spending more than $5 Billion dollars6 a year in loyalty points and rewards.

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Ecrion

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

How to Boost Digital Customer Engagement | Measuring Digital Customer Engagement. Customer engagement has always been a key element of any business marketing strategy. However, the digital age has made it easier and more important to engage with customers in positive ways. Newsletters.

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Currency Alliance

AUGUST 22, 2022

The Points Bank in a loyalty program is the module of software that keeps track of all transactions related to issuing, redeeming, or exchanging points among loyalty program members, partners and other stakeholders. Core functionality of the loyalty points bank.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 9, 2021

Headless loyalty systems are API-first loyalty platforms that enable any customer-facing platform to integrate loyalty marketing functionality into their Customer Experience (CX) via API. The transformation has started, but will soon accelerate rapidly. What does ‘headless’ mean?

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Totango

JUNE 4, 2021

Use These Great Customer Engagement Ideas to Increase Retention. Engagement is key to retention and referrals. Here are seven great customer engagement ideas you can easily put into practice. We’ll also show you how technology can help you automate your engagement strategy. Reward Customer Loyalty.

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Help.com

MARCH 14, 2016

71% of customers are ready and willing to part ways with your company. We share a few tips below that can help boost your customer engagement and create a culture of loyal, happy customers. Make your business more customer-centric. “A Do you measure the results against last year’s survey? Communicate.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 30, 2022

As I reflected on the presentation footage, I decided I wanted to share these principles with the many loyalty professionals I’ve met building Currency Alliance over the last seven years. In recent years, brands have invested more in loyalty. but within a few years it had become South Africa’s leading loyalty program.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 1, 2020

This isn’t just a casual observation, but a sign of a widespread consumer trend which every loyalty marketer should be thinking about. Loyalty marketing is a mix of science and art, but in its most basic form, loyalty programs are a value exchange. One year ago, there might have been 2 people in 50.

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Currency Alliance

APRIL 10, 2021

If a new CEO replaced you tomorrow, and had no previous connection to the current loyalty program, what changes do you think she would make? As CEO, the time you can dedicate to your loyalty program is probably close to zero. It’s not unusual for the very best programs to comprise 15%-30% of a business’s enterprise value.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 7, 2021

I heard it once, two weeks ago at a loyalty conference in London. Loyalty trends were being discussed, as well as what had been hot topics in prior years – some of which just faded away as fads. Most companies need to stay focused on what we call Loyalty Imperatives for this decade. The Loyalty Imperatives answer that question.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It allows us to keep customers engaged when business plans fly out the window, due to marketplace calamities, such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Layering customer-centricity on top implies a single view of the customer – augmented with data from outside your business, and having the tools to make customer insight actionable.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Exploring Customer Loyalty and Retention by Vijay Iyer (Total Retail) Effective customer retention extends beyond product or service quality, emphasizing ongoing customer engagement post-purchase. While subscription models play a role, a crucial strategy involves identifying customer interests.

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Retently

APRIL 5, 2024

Now, let’s cut to the chaise to uncover practical strategies that create such engaging retail experiences that foster loyalty and repeat business. Enhancing the In-Store Journey A customer’s journey within a store is like a combo of senses and choices carefully designed to create a lasting impression of your brand.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This is the blog version of our Loyalty Strategy Guide 2020. For a more engaging read, click here to Currency Alliance Loyalty Strategy Guide 2020. There was a mix of good and bad, for loyalty in 2019. The widespread devaluation of loyalty currencies during the past few years brings this into sharp focus.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The customer satisfaction score aims to get feedback on specific topics such as products or services, quality of interactions with call center agents or after-sales support, purchase procedures, customer experience impression, and so on. How to measure the Customer Satisfaction Score CSAT? x 100, or 85%.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 16, 2020

For most of the last decade, loyalty marketing seemed to be on autopilot for many brands – but the tide is turning. Many of the entrants to this years’ Loyalty Magazine Awards were as adept with data and technology as marketers in many other disciplines. Brilliantly, Voxi has spun this very feature into a loyalty driver.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Escalating competition across sectors – not a purported “death of loyalty” – is making loyalty harder earned. As a result, major loyalty trends for 2019 will see a wave of innovation as established brands trial new ways to retain share of mind. Loyalty marketing breaking ground in new sectors. Smarter budgeting.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

This was my second year on the judging panel at the Loyalty Magazine Awards. Really, for those relatively few brands achieving impressive levels of customer engagement, it’s breath-taking how fast the industry has progressed in such a short time. 1. Looking beyond transactional rewards.

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SurveySparrow

AUGUST 29, 2021

Do you want your customers to stay with you and keep purchasing (or renewing) your products? A customer loyalty survey can help you with that! Everything that you do revolves around making your customers happy. Every good business goes out of its way to create fantastic experiences for its customers.

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Optimove

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Move Beyond Vanity Metrics  Vanity metrics like open rates and clicks are superficial metrics in measuring financial performance on marketing campaigns. This involves aggregating campaigns, measuring the incremental revenue generated, and understanding customer behavior in the absence of your message.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 21, 2019

Loyalty systems were some of the first marketing technology, dating back 35 years. Making the same progress in loyalty has been much more difficult. The typical incumbent loyalty technology platform comprises five core modules: CRM/Analytics Platform. Loyalty Rules Engine. Now, these legacy systems are showing the strain.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In December 2018, we published what we consider will be the Top 10 Trends in loyalty marketing during 2019. Businesses, their markets, and customer behavior have evolved dramatically in the past 10 years, yet most loyalty programs have only made incremental changes (in some cases to the detriment of customers).

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SurveySparrow

JANUARY 7, 2021

Whatever situation your customer faced, the value of providing a great customer experience hasn’t changed a bit for businesses. In fact, brands started to put more attention on improving their customer engagement. Customer Engagement in Pre-Covid World. So, what’s the wait?

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Clicktools

JULY 25, 2017

I love the loyalty program. That is called customer loyalty. The digital transformation has forced the customer experience (CX) to the forefront of every company’s priority list. So why are so many companies falling short when it comes to this bedrock of customer engagement? I love the taste.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The following quote baffles my mind: According to IRI Worldwide, 74% of consumers globally choose a store based on its effective loyalty programme.[i]. If 74% of consumers choose a store based on their loyalty program, then why do few loyalty programs have more than 25% of their customers participating?

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SurveySensum

JULY 7, 2023

This is just one touchpoint where Croma interacts with their customer. There comes many more touchpoints where Croma can engage with its customers. Do you want to know all these touchpoints and how to keep customers engaged even after they shop from you? What factors motivated you to join our loyalty program?

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SurveySensum

JULY 7, 2023

This is just one touchpoint where Croma interacts with their customer. There comes many more touchpoints where Croma can engage with its customers. Do you want to know all these touchpoints and how to keep customers engaged even after they shop from you? What factors motivated you to join our loyalty program?

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Currency Alliance

JANUARY 22, 2020

The top loyalty jobs are tough. Every CEO waxes lyrical about the importance of loyalty. Every CFO knows a loyal customer is many times more profitable than others. Rewards programs have not, historically, earned consistent loyalty across all customer segments. Points alone don’t earn much loyalty.

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Influitive

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Marketers know that finding ways to increase customer engagement is good for the bottom line. Customer engagement is highly correlated to customer loyalty ,” says Aimee Lucas , Customer Experience Transformist and VP at the Temkin Group , a customer experience research and consulting firm.

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SurveySensum

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This shows the high cost of customer acquisition and how, at times, businesses fail to recoup their initial investment. In contrast, Company B chose to focus on retaining its existing customer base by introducing loyalty programs. Well, acquiring new customers can costs you five times more than keeping the ones you have.

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Currency Alliance

APRIL 23, 2019

Chuck Ehredt sat down with Steve Hoban, who recently returned to the UK after spending 11 years working for Pick n Pay in South Africa, to discuss brand collaboration in loyalty schemes. In such a context, the extra value that a loyalty program can deliver to customers was probably meaningful to many people.

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